DrYes wrote:<nitpick> What about people who were granted lifetime tickets due to performing a large service to the organization? </nitpick>

That's being entitled to attend for free.

Deserving to go is really a two-party contract: where one party earns the right to go in the eyes of the other. You could deserve to go because you did something for a friend who has tickets and will give you one when you've earned it. Now whether anyone outside the contract allows it, that's another matter. Most people talk about "deserving" in some sort of worldly, objective sense, but they're just wrong about that.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens